Release Notes - Version 3.4 Patch Releases

3.4.1

Bugs Fixed

General

• Job wizard does not produce a label step
• Unable to add a new job to project with existing workflows
• Copying a job resets the agent filter to 'Any'
• Requesting a changelog in the build job wizard does not produce a changelog step
• Some metrics queries for graphs do not work on SQL Server
• Change the remoting download link
• Current Activity Schedules page should display if a schedule is active/inactive
• Scripted Agent Filters break remote scripting
• Update Home Page content boxes
• Skip quiet period should not be marked as required

Installation / Upgrade

• Commit exception occurs during MySQL upgrade
• Database migration scripts are not in the release
• Install script now deletes the lib directory before copying the lib/ext
• Upgrade fails when you have a workflow with properties defined

Source Control Integrations

• After configuring a SVN repo, the Security tab of the repo configuration shows the wrong repo type in the header.
• Make the Harvest "project name" capable of being a property.
• Populate Workspace steps should have the option to clean the directory

3.4.2

Bugs Fixed

General

• Workflow triggers are not working
• Build Job to Generic Job conversion does not create label step
• CVS Directory offset of '.' doesn't work

3.4.3

Bugs Fixed

General

• Schedule triggers are broken
• Restore project import function
• Scheduled Triggers were not firing correctly
• Cleanups on schedules provide bad links
• The Inactive flag on roles is not respected
• Upgraded Build Jobs do not retain cleanup step
• Extra directories left on agents
• Workflow "Recent Activity" table should show secondary workflow activity
• Warning during job creation can display when not appplicable.
• Agent filter new script popup in build job wizard does not accept scripts
• Get changelog step attempts to transfer and parse all files (and it fails with html files) when it should only look for xml files

Integrations

• JIRA - Integrate changes in version 3.11
• Maven2 - Fix passing build properties
• SVN - Error occurs if username is supplied but no password

Installation / Upgrade

• Start scripts on Mac have bad characters in them
• Project Properties do not retain the pass to builders or set as environment setting
• MySQL clean install has a SQL Exception
• Installation fails at permission repair step for non-Derby databases

3.4.4

Features / Improvements

• Watch command output in real-time
• Improved log viewing to include paging for large files
• Improved log file storage
• Create a library job from a project job
• Add ability to change a workflow's workflow definition
• Support extra command-line parameters on the Nant builder

Bugs Fixed

General

• Scheduled cleanups are not running
• Secure Env Properties should display securely when set as properties for builders
• NullPointer resolving artifacts
• Workflow Triggers get duplicated when you copy a project
• Recovery attempts to run workflows that are in a Aborting status
• Corrupt files can stay in the Codestation cache
• Digest validation failure is very vague.
• Cannot delete statuses in a Life-Cycle Model, even if they have never been used
• File System Repository can't do changelogs
• Can not delete a previously configured Agent
• Persistence exception when trying to delete an unconfigured agent.
• Workflows without a workflow definition error badly
• Deleting a offline configured agent does nothing
• Workflow name does not appear immediately after creation
• Copying a Codestation build life does not update the timestamp on the buildlife
• Workflow failure notification throwing an exception
• Codestation client should not use a temporary directory when not necessary

UI / Navigation

• When saving an Artifact Config it saves correctly but does not forward correctly
• PersistenceRuntimeException when starting a NonOriginatingWorkflow
• "Enable Refresh" interferes with the viewing of logs.
• Unable to manage workflow security if inactive roles have permissions to the workflow
• Complicated workflow definitions can fail to render correctly.
• Error occurs when attempting to reset another user's password
• Editing the workflow name returns to administration
• Deactivated projects and folders show up in Permission selection list and Search
• Clicking the Done button on a project workflow does not return correctly.
• Unable to edit a newly created workflow
• Can't edit post-process script in step
• When configuring the email publisher, the "Recipients" tab is not clickable
• When done creating a stamp context script the script list is not updated
• Broken breadcrumbs link in codestation
• Starting Workflow - Force setting lost
• Restarting Workflow from a step should prompt for confirmation

Integrations

• SVN stamp context script is not working correctly
• Ant Builder does not log bad script location
• Nant Builder can have escaped characters when embedding the script

Installation / Upgrade

• Database connection close error message on otherwise successful installation
• SQL Server specific files are not installed

Importing / Exporting / Copying

• Unable to import a project from file
• Exporting a project does not export the job iteration properties
• Copying a library workflow does not retain the lifecycle model or SCM type
• The "allowed values" of workflow properties disappear when copying a workflow

Remote Scripting

• Remoting does not correctly trigger persistent lifecycle methods
• ScriptMetaData class not found when remote scripting

3.4.5

Bugs Fixed

Log / Ouput Viewing

• Corrupted log storage.
• Closing log viewer causes page to reload
• NPE when viewing logs of an aborted or failed workflow
• LogHelper no longer works after log storage changed to zips
• On the build summary page "view log" and "view output" links show log viewer with a very small height.

General

• Stamp step does not have stamp style when used in a library job
• Cleanup not actually cleaning any buildlifes.
• Run Secondary Workflow button present on inactive buildlifes
• When on a agent's Variables tab, the first tab does not work
• Workflow names with '&' in their name cause their project to not open in the tree
• Link for restarting a build at a particular step is broken
• Broken link on current activity page for non-buildlife jobs
• Groovy: groovy can't handle quotes in JAVA_OPTS environment variable

3.4.6

Features

• Add grouping of changes by users over time to the changes tab

Improvements

• Jobs within the same workflow instance should be able to share directory locks
• Add the ability to manually run a cleanup policy
• Multi-tab pop-ups should not have a view mode and should open in edit mode
• Steps with multiple tabs look bad
• "Current Activity / Agents" and "Project / Properties" lists are not sorted alphabetically
• Old style Edit | Remove links without icons on the Project/ Env property list page.
• Changes tab should only display build lives with changes

Bugs

Integrations

• Updating ClearCase ConfigSpec can error but still show a success
• Unable to create a Subversion Repository trigger
• Unable to delete a Subversion Repository Trigger

Database

• Oracle CLOB fields can only store up to 4000 characters
• DBUnit works differently for Oracle databases
• Unable to create a workflow using SQL Server database

Installation

• Life-Cycle Model upgrade could render some cleanup configs not working
• GUI installer does not install the web application

General

• Error page doesn't play nice in popups due to our Frame-busting code
• Get Changelog Step does not work on Windows Server with Solaris/Linux Agent
• Cancel button while adding a new step to a job is non-functional

3.4.7

Overview

3.4.7 is a patch release for bugs in 3.4.

Improvements

• Upgrade included Ant to 1.7
• CVS modules need some additional options for checkouts
• Forms should automatically focus on the first field when loaded
• Allow a username with the domain specified in the Jabber (XMPP) integration
• Add a domain setting to the Jabber (XMPP) integration

Bugs

• Send email even if one address is incorrect
• When creating a new workflow, the popup never gets closed
• BuildJobWizard AgentFilter screen has redundant, broken, and confusing buttons
• Unable to assign a library workflow definition that has properties to a project workflow
• Unable to import a project that creates a new Life-Cycle Model when auditing is on
• Unable to manage security
• Changes by Users is not accurate
• Codestation client can pull locally published project artifacts instead of Codestation project artifacts
• Job iteration properties are not imported correctly
• Graph queries do not work on MS SQL Server
• Database password not encrypted in the spring-server/base.xml file
• Users should be restricted from being able to delete non-originating workflow cases from build lives
• Codestation client formats dates for http in the default locale
• Unable to create a Workflow Choice Step with multiple workflows selected

3.4.8

Features

• VMWare Lab Manager Integration
• Allow reports to be accessed without logging in
• Create ScriptGroups for managing permissions for the various scripts

Improvements

• Automatic agent upgrade displays its progress
• Allow more than one Harvest package to be checked out for a build.
• Allow BOM file creation to be suppressed
• Allow users to specify how to structure Harvest checkouts.
• Make Harvest View Path scriptable
• Add an option in Harvest to Perform two checkouts.
• Add the ability to checkout multiple packages in Harvest.
• Add different types of workflow priority
• Add distinction for Inactive build lives
• Inactive build lives should not appear on the dashboard pages
• Display the date of Codestation project build lives
• Make Job iteration properties available to agent filters
• Display duration of workflow activity on the project and workflow dashboard
• Display number of locks on the Lockable Resource list
• Perforce Repository needs optional character set settings

Bugs

• Dramatically improve Current Activity on Oracle
• Fix viewing log output in IE6.
• Fix the end of a log from not appearing in some cases.
• User Generator scripts should import the security package and validate when saved.
• Enabling SSL for the server agent communication causes an NPE during server startup
• Truncate test results messages that are too long
• Prioritize workflow results in a NullPointerException
• Change log publishing fails when the changes are from a new user to the system
• Unable to View Administration tab w/o write permission to Administration folder
• Trying to Search Workflows Throws Exception
• Dashboard graph queries do not work on MySQL 4.1.x
• Jobs that do not run due to a pre-condition script block other jobs from running on the same agent
• Users without permission to build a workflow still see the build button.
• Current Activity does not limit visibility based on security
• Anthill tries to recover inactive build life workflows
• Codestation CLI ignores codestation.noCache setting codestation.properties
• Schedule fails to render when the database backup is scheduled under it
• IE6 javascript error which clicking on properties tab of a build job.
• Bugzilla integration can not be edited.
• If a step fails to return its log, the job trace page fails to render
• Dependency requests should have the same workspace date as their requester
• Cancelling a new project popup does not close the popup
• MKS source config will only save changes when edited it work dir script is changed
• Workflow dashboard does not show running workflows like the project dashboard
• IE6 complains about secure and unsecure items on all of our pop-ups
• Jobs queueing for agents are not guaranteed to be processed in order
• Incrementing a workflow property in a stamp does not increment the value on the build request
• Unable to create users using Kerberos authentication realm
• The "Done" submit button is disabled at System > Work Dir Scripts
• System tab security is not enforced correctly
• Push build dependency triggers do not work in some scenarios
• Unable to Create Quality Center Steps for Library Jobs.
• Creating folders and projects under closed folders does not open the parent folder
• Bread crumbs do not display properly for project jobs
• Harvest source config should allow changing of the Harvest repository
• BuildRequest is not available in the context for notification scripts when requests fail

3.4.9

Bugs

• IE6 field focus now prevented from causing codepress to insert bogus characters into text fields on form submission.
• Popups in IE6 fixed
• Debug Level logging no longer prints out password to server log file
• When resolving dependencies of a project without a buildlife, the client no longer reports an error 500
• Copying a Workflow with a CVS Driver now correctly copies the Directory Offset Field
• Report Publisher source directory can now be paramterized

3.4.10

Features

• Notification improvements to support fixed lists of addresses and IMs
• Integrate with Rally
• MSN IM support

Improvements

• Make CVSROOT field scriptable
• Add a history stream field to the Accurev Source Config
• Make the perforce client name scriptable in the case of using an existing space, not just when using a template
• Accurev Driver will fail to update if you use an existing workspace and different working directory
• Add an option to an Accurev source config to skip the date locking on the backing stream
• Exclude files on a source configuration
• Ability to spawn daemon process on Windows

Bugs

• SVN Repository password field was not validated as required
• Windows agent install does not set the env/JAVA_HOME variable on the agent
• Newly created folder does not have import project icon
• Cancel button on new Report Template does not work
• Build Job Wizard View Builder Pop - Up doesn't create div popup
• MKS cleanup step needs the username and password
• When creating a project as the admin user the owner of the project is another user
• Editing a folder's name does not update the tree
• Extra '>' on /tasks/project/BuildLifeTasks/viewIssueList
• A User who creates a new User gets its User Role
• Unable to edit security on a newly created Folder, Project, Workflow
• The Nant builder command fails
• Errors during server startup using SQLServer
• Unable to Edit Accurev Source Config Once it has been created.
• When Copying an Accurev Source Config the Workspace Name and Stream name are not copied
• Accurev command adds unwanted and troublesome quotes to some arguments
• Improved documentation for the Stream field in Accurev is required
• SVN Does not respect worspace date with quiet period
• A recipient only receives the first email notification in a scheme
• Database migration fails because it can't insert a null into the user password field
• Variable Criteria in Agent Filters should throw an exception when it cannot access an agent
• If the path variable contains quotation marks on Windows the agent start up scripts fail
• Non-originating workflows called by the the Run Another workflow Step do not show up in the current activity tab.
• Restarting steps fails with com.urbancode.command.CommandException: The parameter b must be non-null.
• Clicking on a job pre-condition script name does not open the popup window
• Subversion changelog parser ignores files with spaces in the name
• Jobs in queued state do not abort until they get a chance to run
• NPE from JIRA integration when we there is a sub issue with the same name.
• LogViewer fails to load properly in rare cases
• If user is removed from a role in LDAP that change is not updated in Anthill3
• PVCS label step does not resolve the label from which the source was checked out
• Bugzilla bugs not reported on Issues Tab

3.4.11

Improvements

• Improve job allocation to agents for greater performance and scalability
• Improve storage of large data elements in MySQL

Bugs

• Fix a remoting issue when using multiple transactions in a remote script
• Fix a issue introduced with clean installs of 3.4.10 with notification

3.4.12

Features

• System announcements to notify Web UI users

Improvements

• Option to create and update Windows Services during the installation process
• Consolidate build requests from schedules and repository triggers

Bugs

• Aborting a workflow aborts the active job but workflow remains Running
• MSBuild step ignores verbosity setting
• Cannot create new event scripts
• Missing codestation classes from API
• Remoting API zip missing bsh jar
• Remoting API missing Codestation classes

3.4.13

Features

• Integrate with Agitar
• Integrate with VersionOne
• Add a step to resolve a specific Codestation artifact set
• Add a force abort to Current Activity that changes the workflow status from 'Aborting' to 'Aborted'
• Upgrade embedded Groovy to 1.5.5

Improvements

• Restructure the location of logs in the var/logs directory to compensate for some file system limitations.
• Properties of the build life's originating request are available through property resolution throughout the build life
• Add migration from one Life-cycle model to another without losing history
• Make the Manual Yes/No Task step available on library jobs
• Make a Assign Status step available on library jobs
• Add Import/Export of Library Jobs and Workflows
• Add different port, TLS and authentication for the SMTP server settings
• Allow users to edit the security of a resource the have the security permission to without needing the Security Administration System Function.
• Attempt to restore all JIRA issues for the publisher even if some fail
• Improve Mercury QTP Test run integration
• Improve Mercury QTP report to show individual failing tests
• Increase maximum name length of Environment Group Project Properties
• Allow a job iteration of 1 so specific properties can be defined for the job
• Allow dependency conflict detection to be turned off in Server Settings if you are not retrieving the artifacts
• Add start date and end date to the Harvest Get Changelog Step

Bugs

• Run Another Workflow never continues if it is supposed to wait for the workflow to finish
• Unable to create a notification recipient generator
• Merging requests can cause a thread deadlock
• Failure "output" link fails on Windows.
• When restarting a successful job, the job can get a failed step and get stuck at "restarting"
• Request get stuck in Waiting on Dependency status
• ClearQuest issues not listed on Issues tab
• Accurev Label does not always create the desired snapshot
• Workflow and job objects passed to events for notification may not be up to date
• When passing extra properties on a repository trigger url, all previous properties from previous requests are added.
• Agent upgrade fails when using SSL between server and agent
• Archived status should not appear in drop-downs of assign status steps and Codestation build lives
• Error when adding first step to a newly created project job
• Validation of the workflow properties prints the property name, not the label
• Deadlock in job service caused by workflow prioritization
• Aborting a workflow does not interrupt job steps that are waiting to acquire a working directory lock
• Changing the agent's max number of jobs doesn't take effect until a server restart
• Bugzilla integration broken because jericho jar file is missing
• Bugzilla integration broken due to missing DoctypeChanger.jar dep
• ClearQuest Add Comments step does not export defect id pattern
• Links to build lives in issue reports are not correct
• Quiet period is not working correctly
• Delayed originating requests are not recovered correctly
• Restarting a workflow that has a job with a status of Not Needed causes an exception
• Announcements cannot be hidden on HTTPS
• Log output is not properly escaped in the log viewer
• Cancel button while creating a Job throws ugly exception.
• On the job trace page clicking the "view output" text link produces an error.
• Change "Your Announcements" to "My Announcements"
• Repositories are not individually secured correctly
• SQL Server sorts dates incorrectly
• Assign Status step says the script must return the name of the status when it can return the name or object
• Hiding Announcement produces a 500 error on the server.
• Hiding one of many announcements does not work as expected.
• Non-originating Workflow Repository Trigger does not run the workflow correctly
• Changes by Users is not working
• Recovery of build requests fails
• Unable to retrieve running log files after log file structure upgrade
• Sub-folder in folders with projects in them display at the bottom on the dashboard
• JUnit publisher can not be created and jobs with the step in it fail to render
• Fix windows remoting client script to include codestation2.jar
• LDAP Authorization searches need to be escaped
• Deleting a stamp style from a Life-Cycle Model does not remove the Stamp Strategy from Workflows that use it
• Not having the groovy jar in the Ant lib causes failures in beanshell scripts when working with CLOBs
• MKS/Integrity branch name not remembered in the UI.
• Unable to create a report with non required text field